Quotes About Maine State

#1. And my response is 70,000 people in the state of Maine that paid income tax in 2011 will not be paying income tax in 2012.

Paul LePage

#2. And truths, these days, are spoken
The same way promises are made,
With gritted teeth and crossed fingers.

Sanhita Baruah

#3. Maine's welfare program is cannibalizing the rest of state government. To all you able-bodied people out there: Get off the couch and get yourself a job.

Paul LePage

#4. In my home state of Maine, we've seen out-of-state groups with anonymous donors spend millions of dollars to campaign against issues that don't fit their agenda.

Chellie Pingree

#5. Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.

Paul LePage

#6. I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don't want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families.

John Baldacci

#7. Yesterday, voters in the state of Maine voted no to gay marriage, but yes to medical marijuana. That's right, people in Maine believe marriage should be a sacred institution between a really stoned man and a really stoned woman.

Conan O'Brien

#8. I come from a mixed background - my mom's black, my dad's white - and I traveled around the world.

Tia Mowry

#9. A story is only an outlet for frustrated aspirations, for aspirations which the story-teller conceives in accordance with a limited stock of spiritual resources inherited from previous generations.

Sadegh Hedayat

#10. Writing - not being a writer with interesting habits - gets priority.

Jane Lindskold

#11. I don't think all writers are sad, she said. I think it's the other way around- all sad people write.

Lang Leav

#12. My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine.

Marilynne Robinson

#13. Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people.

Tom Allen

#14. In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.

Elizabeth Strout

#15. The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.

Seth Godin

#16. When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.

Adam Jones

#17. Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.

Bob Cousy

#18. About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don't work.

Paul LePage

#19. Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.

John Baldacci

#20. The whole state of Maine is unlocked.

Jonathan Lethem

#21. I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.

Stephen King

#22. The best part of my life is I've been hired to work for the people of the state of Maine, and I'm very humble and very proud.

Paul LePage

#23. My greatest fear in the state of Maine: newspapers. I'm not a fan of newspapers.

Paul LePage

#24. Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.

John Baldacci